1. ToF-SIMS Applications in Microelectronics: Quantification of Organic Surface Contamination.
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Trouiller, C., Signamarcheix, T., Juhel, M., Petitdidier, S., Fontaine, H., Veillerot, M., Kwakman, L. F. Tz., and Wyon, C.
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MICROELECTRONICS ,MASS spectrometry ,SPECTRUM analysis ,CHROMATOGRAPHIC analysis ,SEMICONDUCTORS ,SURFACE chemistry - Abstract
An overview of our main Time-Of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS) applications is first given that highlights the strengths but also reveals some development needs for this technique especially where it comes to contaminants quantification. In this work, as a step towards better quantified data, we have elaborated a method to quantify Airborne Molecular Contamination (AMC) on Silicon. For this a protocol using liquid nitrogen sample cooling was set up to reduce the desorption of the most volatile species under the Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) of the ToF-SIMS analysis chamber and thus to enable a more stable, reliable and representative measurement. Using this protocol for the ToF-SIMS analysis and a careful analytical sequence, good correlation between Wafer Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (W-TDGCMS) and ToF-SIMS results on wafers exposed for varying time under the clean-room air flow containing 2,2,4-trimethyl 1,3-pentanediol diisobutyrate (TXIB) and Phthalates — two main organic clean-room contaminants — is obtained. Relative Sensitivity Factors (RSF) are deduced. With the used measurement setups, the ToF-SIMS low detection limits (DL) lie around 1E11 – 1E12 atoms Carbon/cm2 (atC/cm2) depending on species and are comparable to that of W-TDGCMS at 1E11 atC/cm2. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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